P4LA User’s Manual Introduction
Serial ATA Installation 20
2.7 <Serial ATA installation>
P4LA has four Serial ATA II interfaces wi th RAID function, the transfer rate of the Serial ATA
II can be up to 300MB/s. Please go to http://www.serialata.org/ for more about Serial ATA
technology information. Based on Intel® ICH7R, it supports Intel® Matrix Storage
Technology with combination of RAID 0,1,5 and 10. The main features of RAID on ICH7R
are listed below:
1. Supports for up to RAID volumes on a single, two-hard drive RAID array.
2. Supports for two, two-hard drive RAID arrays on any of four Serial ATA ports.
3. Supports for Serial ATA ATAPI devices.
4. Supports for RAID spares and automatic rebuild.
5. Supports on RAID arrays, including NCQ and native hot plug.
For more information please visit Intel’s official website.
For more about the system setup for Serial ATA, please check the chapter of SATA
configuration.
S_ATA1
S_ATA4
S_ATA3
S_ATA2
(
Associate accessor
y
)